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ATI Mobility X1700 with FC7

06-04-2007, 10:28 PM

Hi all,

I have been trying and trying to get my x1700 working; i do regret purchasing a laptop with an ATI now I have tried installing ati-driver-installer-8.37.6-x86.x86_64.run. I all ask for is 1280x800 resolution instead of 1024x768. I'm running Fedora 7 Linux version 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 on an Asus F3JP. I have tried disabling AIGLX in my xorg.conf. Below i've pasted my output for installation process, /var/log/Xorg.0.log & dmesg in that order. It would be awesome if someone could help me; i would greatly appriciate it.

After running ./ati-driver-installer-8.37.6-x86.x86_64.run i used the default options. Once installation was complete i did the following:-